Create Soft Links From Mac OS 9?

[smeger]

Anyone know how to create or modify soft links from Mac OS 9? I'm trying to fix a problem in X, but I can't boot into X for various reasons.

I need to do something like 'ln -s path linkpath' from within Mac OS 9.

[sveijk]

Your best bet is to boot off the OS X install cd, mount your OS X partition manually and do it from there. If the link isn't system related, a MacOS alias might do the trick (command-option drag the target file).

[smeger]

yeah, that was my plan (booting of the os-x install cd in single-user mode) if all else fails.

But I'd still like to know if it's possible from OS 9.

[sveijk]

If I remember my OS design text on unix correctly that shouldn't work. Regardless, OS 9 seems to trap the file open call on links and issue an error message.

[blb]

Since a symlink is a special Unix file, I don't see how OS9 (without any third-party help) could create one; it's a simple file, but has a special filetype in its containing directory.